"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts in Biology."; Thesis advisor: Jeremiah N. Jarrett.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2013.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 20-22).

This study examined criminal thinking patterns and life skills in college students and prison inmates. Criminal thinking patterns influence the way in which individuals perceive the world and interact with others and life skills are the basic...

A society's culture is a creation of its history, the result of both real and fabricated events. In the same manner, history plays a significant role in the creation of a corporate culture. Organizations working in a traditional environment rely on...

"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Data Mining."; Thesis advisor: Darius Dziuda.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2013.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99).

The first methods for sequencing DNA were developed in the mid-1970’s (Strausberg et al. 2008). The sequencing efforts were labor-intensive, slow, and costly (Metzker, 2005). As a result, researchers could sequence only a few base pairs per...

"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Data Mining."; Thesis advisor: Daniel Miller.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2014.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-59).

Over the past 22 years there has been a lot of discussion about global temperature change and it’s possible effect on all elements of hurricanes and tropical storms including intensity, duration, rainfall, and number. Some have said that the...

Helping is a phenomenon that has been widely studied in psychology. Two types of helping that can occur within an organization are organizational citizenship behavior, or OCB, and volunteering. OCB is helping that occurs during the course of...

For the decade following the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the United States organized, supported and sustained a group of counter-revolutionary forces in open warfare against a Marxist-inspired Sandinista government. Operating out of Honduran...

This work examines details and offers possible solutions to the major problems faced by the Nigerian Igbo student population in the United States. The widely different world views, social values, attitudes toward mental illness and family and...

Social Movement Theory (SMT) is an area of study in Sociology and Political Science that provides an analytical framework for understanding the factors involved in organized social action. A social movement develops in response to an injustice or...

Rural, untouched land is being threatened by construction of subdivisions and retail buildings to support the growing population and continuing urban and suburban sprawl. Natural resources and the environment are drastically changing, and are in...

In Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand, written over two decades ago, the author answers a simple question, how best to explain the rise of the modern business in the United States? While regarding new technologies and burgeoning markets as...

Technology Education at the middle school level fulfills two unique roles. First, it should provide students with a hands-on application of the theoretical aspects of both the mathematics and science curriculums which make-up a portion of the...

The effects of impervious surfaces on river systems as a result of urbanization are well documented and include such changes as increases in the magnitude and frequency of peak discharge, diminishing lag times, decreases in base flow and the...